Together We Are Strong:...

“The owners of this country know the truth: it’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” —George Carlin The nation is in crisis! The economy is stuck in neutral! Unemployment still hovers close to 10 percent! And states across the country are facing...

The Politics of Vitriol...

Glenn Beck’s nightly tour through the terrifying political landscape of his paranoid imagination inevitably includes a detour into the shadowy precincts of liberal thought, unfriendly territory where conspiracies to destroy the United States are incubated in every university classroom,...

Despite Best Efforts, E...

Rumors in the Middle East are something of an informal news agency—and with formal news agencies being so often state-owned and state-fed, rumors are often taken to be more credible than printed or televised news. Last Thursday, for example, everyone believed Mubarak would announce that...

Academic Freedom at CUN...

Wel­come to the Aca­d­e­mic Free­dom at CUNY blog. We’ve been cov­er­ing the recent sit­u­a­tion of polit­i­cal purg­ing at Brook­lyn Col­lege and any related news since Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 28. Most recent updates will appear at the top with a EST stamp. Day...

Academic Freedom at CUN...

Wel­come to the Aca­d­e­mic Free­dom at CUNY blog. We’ve been cov­er­ing the recent sit­u­a­tion of polit­i­cal purg­ing at Brook­lyn Col­lege and any related news since Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 28. Most recent updates will appear at the top with a EST stamp. Day...